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Jeremiah 44 · Grade 5

A Final Defiance

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Jeremiah 44 contains Jeremiah's last recorded prophecy, spoken to Jewish communities across Egypt. God began with history. Jerusalem and Judah were desolate because of idolatry. However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate. Yet even in Egypt, the survivors had returned to the same sin.

The response was the boldest rejection in the book. The men and women declared that they would continue offering to the queen of the sky. They argued that when they worshiped her in Judah, they had plenty of food and saw no evil. They said that since they stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, they had lacked all things (44:18).

Jeremiah answered that they had it backward. The disaster came because of their idolatry, not because they abandoned it. God gave a sign. Pharaoh Hophra would be handed to his enemies, just as Zedekiah had been. The question would be settled by events. The people would know whose word would stand, God's or theirs. The chapter shows how a hardened heart can twist experience to justify sin.

Show What You Know

  1. To whom was Jeremiah's last recorded prophecy spoken?

  2. Whom did they say they would keep burning incense to?

  3. To what did the people trace their troubles?

  4. What sign did God give?

Crossword

51423

Across

  1. They will fall in the ____ of Egypt.
  2. They will fall in the land of ____.

Down

  1. However I sent to you all my ____ the prophets.
  2. However I sent to you all my servants the ____.
  3. So that none of the remnant of ____.

Think About It

  1. How can a hardened heart twist experience to justify sin?

  2. Why does it matter whose word stands, God's or ours?

Memory Verse

Because you have burned incense and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today.”

Jeremiah 44:23 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for patiently calling us. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What can pull hearts from God?
  • How can you put God first?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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